The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-01

L TELL you that unless something Is done
with the Internal Revenue laws in the way
of modification or repeal, we are IL great
danger of losing the State next year for
Governor, or for the Legislature ~ From
a wise Piedmont editor.
PREACHERS are no small factors in the
moulding of public sentiment in North
Carolina, and no one glores in it more
than | F.; and yet | should be rejoiced to see
them running it in moulds a little broader
II From successful and level headed
business man.
HAVE just finished your editorial upon
Rev Thos. Dixon, Jr. | am delighted to
hear of his good fortune and advancement.
He would never have secured it in North
Carolina as it is the traditional policy of
the State to discourage and throttle all
native effort From a scholarly gentle
man.
The sad fact is that there is very little
party organization in the country OF either
political parry: and there is not much
likelihood of any improvement in this re-
spect next year 1t seems impossible to
secure perfect township organization,
preach it as we'll and as effectually the
| CHRONICLE does. II From a wise Western
politician.
If Congress would modify the law so as
TO LIST the PROPERTY of tobacco and liquor,
ike other property, all would be well. We
/ had law passed during the war of 1912
taxing liquor 25 cents per gallon, and 1t
was listed at the same time other property
was listed, and 1t worked we'll. If Con
/ sress would duplicate il that is all we
/ need. WV Extract from a letter from lead
! ing Transmontaine Democrat.
The people of the West are willing for
/ the sake of our Eastern negro ridden coun-
ties to continue the present system of
/ county governments and we will lose moth
/ ing III the next campaign on that issue.
+ Indeed We have triumphed twice when he
issue was precipitated and the subject is
now overshadowed by matters that are Of
more Importance aud ; gniticance. From
| a Mountain Senator.
THERE is less of Ringism in North Caro-
! lima now than there was from 1868 to
1876 under Radical rule when the people
/ elected their ma agiStrates. | am opposed
TO interfering With the County Govern
ment system. The cry against the Coun-
ty Government system comes from our
old enemies, the Republicans, joined occa
sionally by traitors from the Democratic
ranks. From a prominent member of
the -Asheville bar.
| MUST admit that l am a littl, sensitive
about criticism of Hon. jefferson Davis,
a. look upon him as the NOBLE>T living
character IN America to-day, and feel
that every other Southerner should look
at him in the same light. Take his record
in the T. S Senate before the war, and
that alone should make US proud of him.
II From a gentleman who didn't like
what our Washington correspondent said
about Davis and Jackson.
We are going ahead and bowling about
the Revenue laws, saying they ought to
be abolished, and yet we want only pOr
ton abolished. The Republicans are in
favor of free whiskey. 1t seems to me We
are leading the people to think we want
total repeal, when, as | understand it, we
only want partial. 1t will never do to
humbug the people in this way. If we
propose to keep up the tax on whiskey,
| why not come out and say and fight it
out on that line?-[ From Piedmont gen
| tleman.
OUR party must not yield an inch in
the matter of county government. 1t
would be an admission that we have been
wrong The Piedmont Democrats are in
favor Of standing squarely by the present
system and defending it as right in itself
and as being in accordance with the i'm
memorial uSages of the fathers. There is
rot a particle of sentiment against 1t in
Iredel county except among Radical poll
tcans. The same is true of Watauga,
and that part of the mountains lying west
and north Of Statesvlle. From a leading
Iredell Democrat.
Now the CHRONICLE suits me. | don't
growl at it. Even when it attempts the
superhuman feat Of fondllng the Demo
cratic Wings Of the West with one hand,
8 hile it holds down the long forbearing
Democrats in the East with the other,
do not growl And | have made no sigr
when Prof c. Alphonso Smith has limo
Gently asked where two lines, bearing pri
ma facie evidence of the "Ancent Mari
ner" could be found. If he asks where
the 10 commandments are written, | shall
say never a word, because the CHRONICLE
is first class paper and am not hunting
for the mote in a sun beam. - From al
esteemed Nash subscriber.
THE question of who shall be admitted
to the primaries is a very serious one
Men who vote for single man on tn,
Democratic ticket declare themselves tt
be Democrats and demand admission tt
, Democratic primaries only for the purpose
| of creating dissensions, or securing th'
nomination of some man who, while regu
larly in the party, is Objectionable to
large class Of the best Democrats